Not really. Why would you want to?? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

You can use float everywhere as Luc adviced you. But if you for some reason need to store lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes and lpTotalNumberOfBytes as Int64 you can covert their values in division expression like this: ((float)lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes / (float)lpTotalNumberOfBytes )*100; However this expression return float value so you need to change type of strAnswer from Int64 to float or convert explicitly convert result to Int64: Int64 strAnswer = (Int64) (((float)lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes / (float)lpTotalNumberOfBytes )*100); But remember if you convert float to Int64 system will cut off everything behind decimal point, so in this particular case result 5.7687068 will be converted to 5. hth

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You can use the Win32 functions GetCurrentDirectory and SetCurrentDirectory or the CRT functions _tgetdcwd and _tchdir. Steve

Thank you for the link. While the documentation helps the library is in .NET (C#) and helps me none for c++. I will read the docs for directShow. If I remember correctly I believe Xvid has there own library in c++ which includes the Directshow filter. I may end up using that if I do not find anything better.

"Windows Sockets 2 Application Programming Interface" at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winsock/winsock2/wsapi22.doc[^]. I think there are pdf'd versions of it around, if you search for them. But even though it's written for Winsock 2.2, it was released in August of 1997. So, some parts are clearly out-of-date (e.g., SO_RECVTIMEO is supported currently, even though the above 1997 release says it's not). So, at the end of the day, you will still need to check at the on-line docs for complete currency. Best regards, Mike

I don't know if this'll help, but I recommend using SDL_net as the network library... It's cross-platform! :-D http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/[^] Lord Kixdemp www.SulfurMidis.com www.SulfurSoft.tk [ftp://][http://][hotline://]tsfc.ath.cx

If you need to access parallel ports in WIN32 use http://www.naughter.com/parallelport.html[^] If you need to access serial ports in parallel use http://www.naughter.com/serialport.html[^] I've use that in some applications, but now I use Ramon de Klein's Serial library for C++[^]

Hi for change font and font size you can use CreateFont and SelectFont

Just updating, I tried this and it still will not open the window, I just see the executable open in task manager then 1 second later it closes and I never see any window open: ShellExecute(NULL,_T("open"),_T(".\\cd1\\CBTNuggetPlayer.exe"),NULL,NULL,SW_SHOW); not sure what else to try. I've gone through the flags to no avail.

also set the 2nd parameter to "open"

You may want to take some ideas from Ramon de Klein's Serial library[^]. Behind every great black man...             ... is the police. - Conspiracy brother Blog[^]

CNewbie wrote: am just not sure how to go about extracting characters from a string. You can use the function WCHAR GetAt(int nIndex) "Success is the ability of going from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm" - W.Churchill

Use a Mutex, commeon to both threads. Should solve the problem.

CNewbie wrote: Finally got it working So what was the final solution? "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown

CNewbie wrote: Do you have any recommendations on how I can go about outputting to the window from within this thread. Yes, post a message back to the main thread who is in charge of the UI. See here and here. "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown

The worker thread is causing the cpu usage problem, it must go to sleep part of the time if you want it to stop doing that. Even just using WaitCommEvent(...,EV_RXCHAR,...) inside your loop might reduce cpu usage (how much depends on baudrate). I would just use SetupComm(...,dwInQueue,dwOutQueue) and go to sleep for a short time, before reading the data from the rx-buffer. INTP "The more help VB provides VB programmers, the more miserable your life as a C++ programmer becomes." Andrew W. Troelsen